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nay, entirely with the legal side of criminal anthropology, and his 

 great work Criminology deals with the means of repressing crime 

 quite as much as with its nature and causes. He has also studied 

 the question of what reparation is due to victims of crime. His only 

 flight into sociology has concerned his attack on socialism, in whose 

 curative Utopia he does not believe. 



Among the latest contributors to this fascinating science the 

 highest places belong to three young men: Scipio Sighele, Gugli- 

 elmo Ferrero, and A. G. Bianchi. All three are journalists, all 

 three distinguished by the same qualities of keen observation, of 

 more than ordinary cultivation, with sometimes a tendency to write 

 a little hastily and to jump to conclusions too rapidly. This reproof 

 especially concerns Sighele, who has allowed himself to judge and 

 write of matters English and American of which he has but the 

 most superficial and second-hand knowledge. Here the newspaper 

 writer has done wrong to the scientist. Sighele made his name with 

 an admirable book entitled The Criminal Crowd, which a French 

 writer has thought fit to appropriate in outline and almost entirely in 



substance, obtaining for it 

 the honor of translation into 

 English, while the real au- 

 thor has been left out in the 

 cold. Able, too, is The 

 Criminal Couple. A para- 

 doxical pamphlet directed 

 against parliamentary gov- 

 ernment, and revealing the 

 failure of a system on which 

 the hopes of Europe were 

 once based as the sheet-an- 

 chor of liberty, excited some 

 attention on its appearance 

 in 1895, and was dealt with 

 at length in Blackwood's 

 Magazine. His last work, 

 on Individual Morality as 

 opposed to Public Morality, 

 inspired by the doubtful 

 morality of Signor Crispi's 

 government, also aroused dis- 

 cussion, especially among Crispi's adherents, who looked on the book 

 as a bit of special pleading in favor of their master's dubious political 

 proceedings. 



Guglielmo Ferrero is a Piedmontese, and belongs to an old 



Scipio Sighele. 



